Sexism

Remember the lawsuit filed by two female Yale Law School students over various allegedly defamatory and threatening comments posted about them on AutoAdmit.com? The plaintiffs are in the process of amending their complaint, and they’ve sought extra time in which to do so. From a tipster: [T]he third motion for an extension of time was […]

Andrew Bruck takes a question at Wednesday’s press conference. Every now and then, we leave our apartment. We did so on Wednesday, to attend the press conference of Law Students Building a Better Legal Profession, where the organization unveiled its law firm diversity rankings (accessible here; Los Angles Times article here). It was quite informative. […]

He likes PD butts, and he cannot lie. From the New York Daily News (of course): When a local judge laughingly said in open court that criminal defense lawyer Ruth Boyer had “a nice butt,” she was not flattered. The sexist comment by LaGrange Town Justice Edmund Caplicki, made in July 2005, was reported to […]

Here are some of the comments appended to our recent post about Gibson Dunn’s snazzy new website: “I like the pictures on the main directory. Those are the best part. Except that they don’t have too many women, and one of the women is in a very high school girl peek-a-boo around the brick wall […]

This email exchange, between two law students at Washington University Law, took place late last month. It’s reminiscent of that Greenberg Traurig email exchange from the other day — which, in our book, is high praise. Some background, from our tipster: I’m an avid reader of ATL. Although I don’t see much law school coverage […]